This is an analysis of The Night Of Sorrows by Shiv Kumar Batalvi.

Either this sorrowful night is long
Or my songs are interminable.…

Browse poems by Shiv Kumar Batalvi

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXc cdeX eXdd Xbcc faef
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 100100101 111101000 0101111 11111 11111 111100 111111001 11101 10101011 1011011111 110 1100 11010001 11110100 011 011 01101001 01101101 01111011 111001001
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

them, moon

Anaphora

a

Epiphora

them, hurts